Background: Intensive care units (ICUs) account for considerable health care costs. Adequate pain and sedation management is important to clinical care. Objective: To determine whether implementing a ...

Unassisted breathing in patients with tracheostomy was linked to decreased weaning duration and increased liberation from MV on hospital discharge.

Intensive care unit (ICU)–acquired weakness often develops in patients who are undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation. Early active mobilization may mitigate ICU-acquired weakness, increase ...

Researchers found patients have worse outcomes when put under early deep sedation in the intensive care unit, but pharmacist-led protocols could help. The retrospective study, conducted from March to ...

image: Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City have received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the best ways to implement recognized standards of ...

In mid-August California‘s Health Officer, Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, issued a new order meant to ensure rapidly-filling hospitals and ICUs had the support and flexibility they needed. At the time, Aragón ...

Some people have heard of the ICU but don’t fully understand what goes on in an intensive care unit. Read on to learn more about these specialty hospital wards that help treat severe cases and provide ...

Intravenous fluids are recommended for the treatment of patients who are in septic shock, but higher fluid volumes have been associated with harm in patients who are in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Patient symptom-driven sedation, analgesia, and delirium protocols were associated with several changes in pharmacologic practice. The proportion of patients receiving each class of drugs within the ...